How fast an internet site is going to open would depend not only on the Internet connection of the website visitor, but also on the connection of the server where the site is hosted and on the network infrastructure - routers, server network card, and many others. Slow connection or hardware which can't deal with a high volume of incoming and outbound traffic can have strong impact on the consumer experience of your website visitors and the performance of your website because people shall most probably see error messages that the site isn't available or it shall take a long time for your content to load. In the event that such a thing happens, it's unlikely that the visitors will revisit your website. For that reason you have to always examine the connectivity of any server that you obtain and not just the main hardware components like hard drive, processor and physical memory.
Server Network Hardware in Dedicated Web Hosting
The Linux dedicated web hosting we provide come with gigabit network cards that are tested alongside all other hardware components before and after any new machine is built in order to make sure that we will not use a faulty part which can cause an issue sooner or later. We also use the newest hardware for our internal network within the Chicago data center where we offer the dedicated plans. That includes routers, switches and hardware firewalls which can deal with massive incoming and outgoing traffic to any hosting server, while any traffic that's not legitimate shall be filtered and won't use up your system resources. The constant access to the center is ensured by using redundant backbone Internet providers. That way we ensure the fast and stable connection to all of our hosting machines, so your sites and applications shall be up and running at top speed all of the time.